haste

noun

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The verdict

“haste” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #20,313. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,313
frequency rank, Portuguese
409
“H” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pedaço de pau ou ferro, delgado, levantado e direito, em que se embute ou encrava alguma coisa, como uma bandeira, uma lança, uma alabarda

Corpus desk

Index PT-haste · haste · Portuguese

haste · rank #20,313 · 7 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,313
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 409
  • PHOTO-FINISH highway

Nearest frequency peer: highway (+2 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “haste”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “haste” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

haste vs hat
60% similar
haste vs have
60% similar
haste vs hate
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for haste
PropertyValue
Headwordhaste
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#20,313
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “haste”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).hastecai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “highway” (#20,315), “homônimo” (#20,316), “gerido” (#20,307). Entre 409 lemas com “H”, “haste” fica em #20,313. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around haste, anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,313 among 409 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for haste, with forms such as "ahste", "haset", and "hasste". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "hat", "have", "hate", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is haste, spelled H-A-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    pedaço de pau ou ferro, delgado, levantado e direito, em que se embute ou encrava alguma coisa, como uma bandeira, uma lança, uma alabarda
  2. 2
    parte fina e alongada de um objeto
  3. 3
    parte de um vegetal a que estão seguros as folhas, as flores, os frutos; caule, tronco, vergôntea, pedúnculo, pé de uma planta

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how haste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. A haste de um guarda-chuva

This word in other languages

shaft(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ahste
  • haset
  • hasste
  • hastte
  • hatse
  • hhaste
  • hsate

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of haste - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ahste2haset2hasste1hastte1hatse2hhaste1hsate2
Edit distance from "haste"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "haste"?
"haste" is spelled H-A-S-T-E.
What does "haste" mean?
As a noun, "haste" means: pedaço de pau ou ferro, delgado, levantado e direito, em que se embute ou encrava alguma coisa, como uma bandeira, uma lança, uma alabarda
What words are commonly confused with "haste"?
"haste" is commonly confused with "hat", "have", "hate". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "haste" come from?
"haste" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "haste", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fusca#20,304busto#20,228buquê#20,227brand#20,223

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

being7 variantsavril7 variantsvalsa7 variantsshape7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list